After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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